“I’ve been reading my comments, and a large majority of them are people congratulating me for losing some amount of weight that you have perceived that I have lost, but I guarantee you that I’m still fat as s—, and this hasn’t changed from day 1,” she said. “I’m just not out here to be anybody’s weight loss inspiration.”

“If you’re inclined to be inspired by me I appreciate that, I see you, but I’m just a complex human being focusing on a lot of other things in life besides losing weight,” she said. “So it’s just not something I will ever feel comfortable saying thank you for. If you’re inspired by me that’s wonderful, I’m glad, but I hope it’s because I’m a woman who learned to love herself no matter what size she is.”

“Reminder: your value does not increase if your weight decreases,” she said. “You can implement healthy behaviors as a fat person or a thin person independent of weight. Changing your body is not the 🔑 to happiness, but changing your mindset is.”

Thore constantly gets criticized on social media, first for being too heavy, and now that she frequently shares videos from her workouts on Instagram, she gets negative comments about her techniques.

“They don’t want to see you working out, and it’s so ridiculous because the people who maintain that I should lose weight should be applauding me, if that’s what they think I should do, and yet they still find a way to criticize me,” she previously told PEOPLE. “It’s just fat phobia and I don’t listen to it.”

Thore reiterated that she works out for her health, not to change her size.

“You can lose weight or you can not, but regardless exercise will benefit you in a million other ways,” she said.